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Craig Wright Sues Bitcoin Podcaster for Defamation

Craig Wright Sues Bitcoin Podcaster for Defamation

Bitcoin
advocate and NChain chief scientist, Craig Wright, has filed a defamation
lawsuit against cryptocurrency podcaster, Peter McCormack, in the United
Kingdom. Confirming the legal action, the podcaster tweeted
a photo of the legal notice on Twitter.

Wright
Demands Over $1130k in Damages

Craig
Wright wants around $130,000 in damages along with the court fees and other
legal costs. His attorney personally notified the defendants and is planning to
file the claim in the coming week.

The
reason that is given behind the claim is that Peter McCormack accused Craig
Wright of falsely claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto (aka, the founder of Bitcoin)
and other frauds. The claim also aims at preventing Peter McCormack from any
further defamation against Craig Wright. Craig Wright believes that the
allegations will hurt Bitcoin SV, which, according to him, is the real target.

Craig
Wright on a Lawsuit Spree

This
legal action has not come as a surprise as Craig Wright had already warned that
he would sue Peter McCormack, in an earlier interview
with Bloomberg. He has even issued a similar warning to Vitalik Buterin, the
co-founder of Ethereum.

According
to him, he has targeted the two individuals, Peter McCormack, and Vitalik
Buterin as the two have a significant influence within the cryptocurrency
sector. He went to court so that he can rightfully prove that he is Satoshi
Nakamoto rather than letting the mob on Twitter decide it.

More About Craig Wright

Craig Steven Wright is a businessman and a computer scientist from Australia who has quite often publicly claimed that he has been the central part of the team that created the Bitcoin. Moreover, he also claims that he is the identity behind the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. The claims have been considered to be a possible hoax widely. The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto still stays a crypto mystery.

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